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You know you’re a “locavore” when…the local paper does an article about eating locally and you personally know everyone quoted in the article.
The San Diego Union Tribune’s food section this week was dedicated to the “County’s Bounty,” in the form of an article on eating locally by respected beer columnist (and reporter) Pete Rowe. Thanks [...]

To me, nothing says summer like corn on the cob hot off the grill. This week’s meal was a delicious excuse to indulge.

The Meal:
Plank Grilled Wahoo and Swordfish with Apricot Sauce

Corn on the Cob and Foil-Roasted Squash Medley

Simple and classic–it doesn’t get more summery.

It’s OLS catch-up day!  (I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I’ve got a batch of homebrew going and I keep leaping up from the computer to tend to it).
Week 4:
Week 4 found me with a dozen friends over for a backyard barbeque, and the pleasure of realizing I could feed them locally. [...]

Ah, me and OLS–there’s always a reason for me to get behind.  While busy weekends have kept me from posting, they haven’t kept me from eating delicious local meals. Here’s my meal from OLS week 3 which was easily my favorite meal of the summer so far.
This week I stopped by the World Famous Smoked [...]

Ok, I took some liberties with “local” this week, when I decided to explore the depths of my freezer and came across two elk ribeye steaks that a friend had given me last summer. The meat comes from his family’s ranch in Minot, North Dakota, and was part of an enormous dry-ice packed cooler that [...]

In anticipation of next week’s show at the orpheum, I’m declaring 6/9-6/13 the Week of Tom Waits. Basically, this involves listening to the entire Tom Waits disography, in order, broken up into about five albums a day. For anyone who wants to partake, here’s Monday’s line up:

Closing Time
The Heart of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Small [...]

This week was the first week of one local summer, and I kicked it off with a classic: steak and potatoes.

Ok, it was a little more involved than just steak and potatoes. Here were the dishes:
Cherry & Vanilla Porter Marinated Tri-Tip with Porter-Glazed Shitake Mushrooms
Grilled Artichokes with Sauteed Grape Tomatoes and Dill
Tri-Color Medley of [...]

It dawned on me the other week that had been almost a year since the start of last year’s One Local Summer. The exercise involved committing to eat one completely local meal just once a week, for each week of the summer. It was amazing, and that is an understatement. I started out knowing [...]

Ok, so I can’t get this beer out of my head. Here’s a bit more information on it:
Hollister is a brewpub located in Goleta, CA, which is just outside of Santa Barbara. Looks like they’ve been open for little over a year, although two of the three owners have backgrounds in brewing (at the Santa [...]

1. Yes, they serve sausages.
tonight there were 6 options:knockwurst, hot italian, linguica, veal bratwurst, a veal/pork brat, and one more i can’t remember. We ordered the linguica (taking up chef dylan’s suggestion), and the pork/veal brat, which were EXCELLENTLY paired with the Hollister “The j” and the Pizza Port Carlsbad Ruby Black, respectively. Lets just [...]